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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:11:59 -0800
From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To: "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com>
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Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Subject: Re: Is -j safe to use when building or updating ports?
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> Short answer: with the current infrastructure, it isn't.  There is a
> WIP to fix this, but I dropped the ball in completing the review of it.
>
> The problem is dealing with the dependencies.
>
> mcl

There's also a race condition possibility with pkg_add and the files
in /var/db/pkg that still hasn't been worked out yet.
-Garrett